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Ted Cruz is an American politician born on December 22, 1970. He is a U.S. Senator from Texas and a member of the Republican Party. Cruz graduated from Harvard Law School and taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He began his political career in the Texas State Senate before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2009.

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“Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?”

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“A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.”

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“The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.”

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“Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.”

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“Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.”

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“This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.”

“The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.”

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“Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.”

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“One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.”

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“Always be sexy. I salute that message.”

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“I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If — and the if is critical — they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.”

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“Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.”

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“But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding.”

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“Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.”

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“The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts, free from government coercion; it does not mandate scouring the public square to forcibly remove all acknowledgement s of the Almighty”

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“Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.”

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“Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.”

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“How do we get America back to work? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.”

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“Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.”

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“You know, back in the '70s — I remember the '70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.”

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“The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.”

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“The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.”

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“I don’t think I’m all that conservative.”

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“I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.”

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“It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.”

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“Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.”

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“My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.”

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“I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.”

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“I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.”

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“President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.”

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“What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.”

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“I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.”

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“I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.”

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“The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.”

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“It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.”

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“Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.”

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“The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.”

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About the Author

Born: December 22, 1970
Known for: United States Senator
Quotes: 437

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